Five Rushing Touchdowns for Daniels as Florida State Routs Virginia
Ashton Daniels scored five touchdowns, and he did not throw one of them. The Florida State quarterback ran for five, the last of them a 1-yarder with 3:41 left, and the Seminoles beat Virginia 38-7.
Virginia got there first. Beau Pribula threw 13 yards to Da'Shawn Martin with 6:04 left in the first quarter, and the Cavaliers led 7-0. They never scored again. Daniels tied it with a 4-yard run early in the second quarter, put Florida State ahead with a 3-yard run before the half was out, and Gabe Panikowski's 44-yard field goal made it 17-7 at the break. Daniels added a 6-yard score in the third quarter and then an 81-yard run, which made it 31-7 entering the fourth. That was 38 unanswered points.
The yardage explains the rest. Florida State ran 45 times for 282 yards and totaled 465. Virginia ran 39 times for 38 yards, which is under a yard a carry, and finished with 206 total. Daniels himself had 17 carries for 136 yards, and the 81-yarder was more than half of that. He did throw an interception, the only turnover of the game, and it cost nothing. His passing line was 12 of 19 for 183 yards.
Both teams are 3-2, though they did not look it on Saturday. For fantasy owners, 50.9 Promethium points from one quarterback is the kind of game that wins a week by itself, and Daniels now has nine rushing touchdowns on the season, a number I would have guessed was a typo.